Three participants will be honored and recognized for their individual efforts to make the legal profession more diverse and inclusive at the Legal Inclusiveness & Diversity Summit luncheon on Monday, May 7 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown hotel. Top participants and other attorneys from Colorado and across the country participated in Step Up for Diversity: Take Action to Build an Inclusive Legal Profession^TM, a one-of-a-kind, national, online campaign developed by the Center for Legal Inclusiveness, a Denver-based nonprofit leading the legal industry in education and initiatives to improve the retention and advancement of diverse and female attorneys.

Attorneys from Colorado and across the country will attend the Center for Legal Inclusiveness’ (CLI) 6^th Annual Legal Inclusiveness & Diversity Summit^TM, on Monday, May 7, 2012 in Denver, Colorado at the Sheraton Denver Downtown hotel. The Summit is the premier inclusiveness and diversity conference for the legal profession. Now in its sixth year, the 2012 Summit will feature distinguished experts and an outstanding panel of women general counsel.

The Center for Legal Inclusiveness has added Twitter to its list of social media outlets. 

CLI shares information about its events and other diversity and inclusiveness news on CLI's social media pages on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. CLI will be tweeting at its upcoming 6th Annual Legal Inclusiveness & Diversity Summit on May 7th (Twitter hashtag #CLISummit). Stay connected by following CLI.

CLI is partnering with the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) to provide inclusiveness training for MCCA's new Academy for Leadership and Inclusion in 2012. CLI will lead training programs for MCCA's members and Firm Affiliate Network in 10 cities nationwide.

The Center for Legal Inclusiveness (CLI), the Colorado Pledge to Diversity Legal Group (The Pledge Group) and the Association of Corporate Counsel-Colorado Chapter (ACC) are partnering with Kaplan Test Prep to offer multiple Diversity LSAT Exam Scholarships for 2012 test takers. Scholarships cover the cost of a review course, the exam fee, and application fees to both the University of Colorado Law School and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

University of Colorado Law School student Shandea Jo Williams has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Diversity Bar Exam Scholarship. The scholarship includes a bar review course with Kaplan PMBR and the application fee for the Colorado Bar Examination.

Join CLI for a lunchtime CLE on February 3, 2012, "Navigating Hidden Barriers: Are You Maximizing Your Career Potential?" at White and Steele, P.C., 600 17th Street (Dominion Towers), South Tower, Suite 2310, Denver, CO 80202. Cost $25 includes lunch. 1 ethics/1 general CLE credit anticipated.

CLI, the Colorado Pledge to Diversity Legal Group and the Association of Corporate Counsel-Colorado Chapter are partnering with Kaplan Test Prep to offer one Bar Scholarship for a diverse law student sitting for the 2012 Colorado Bar Examination, and multiple Diversity LSAT Exam Scholarships for 2012 test takers. Scholarships cover the cost of a review course and the exam application fee. For questions, contact Andrea Juarez.  Bar Scholarship Application - Deadline: December 15, 2011